subs. (common).—A comfortable privacy: as a woman’s boudoir, a man’s smoking den, a bar-parlour.
1837. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xlv. ‘Vere are they?’ said Sam…. ‘In the SNUGGERY,’ rejoined Mr. Weller.
1872. G. ELIOT, Middlemarch, xvii. Knowing … Mr. Farebrother was a bachelor he had thought of being ushered into a SNUGGERY, where the chief furniture would probably be books.
1886. The Field, 13 Feb. We in Meath had a pleasant time in Miss Murphy’s SNUGGERY.
1898. BINSTEAD, A Pink ’Un and a Pelican, 77. Give me the old-fashioned waiter … who becomes a part and parcel of the house. Simpson’s, and that older SNUGGERY, the “Cheshire Cheese,” have had many such.
